I predict the numbers will increase steadily every year and it is a good thing. Here in Québec, us babyboomer and gen-x will not want to be a burden to our children, and certainly don't want to end up in a residence being spoon fed in a diaper. When the party is over, it's time to go - and we did have a good party :-)
I guess that picture is somewhat haunting. And it is a sad picture of your mother's last days. Still, I would choose that over being put to death. Call me old fashioned. I just don't see killing as the answer.
Why the difference in rates between BC and other provinces . Why are rates so high in Canada compared to California ( 10 fold rate difference ) ? Same population size . Legalised at the same time . Outbreak of suffering ? Permissive Canadian assessors normalising MAID ?
MAID is different indeed. As you are a philosopher, you are skilled in debate. How would you argue against your position on MAID from.a purely logical and ethical perspective?
You are correct that those of us who find the high number of MAID deaths disturbing have an a priori belief in the sanctity of human life and that MAID is not a fundamental good. But your a priori belief that MAID is a fundamental good also colours your views. You seem to draw logical parallels between the number of heart attacks, which we assume to agree is a fundamental bad, with the number of MAID procedures, which we do not agree on as to it being a good or a bad. Your logic is flawed. Your arguments are not free and open but rather all used to buttress your belief. So how can you draw a proper ethical conclusion?
There are objections to assisted dying and I want to hear them. My point in this article is that pointing to the number of assisted deaths isn't an argument against MAID any more than it's an argument for it. Since nearly everyone agrees that heart attacks are bad, we don't need an argument to see this. MAID is different.
I predict the numbers will increase steadily every year and it is a good thing. Here in Québec, us babyboomer and gen-x will not want to be a burden to our children, and certainly don't want to end up in a residence being spoon fed in a diaper. When the party is over, it's time to go - and we did have a good party :-)
My goodness! Having had such a good party it can only go downhill from here. I'm sorry you can't embrace all of life.
Don't be silly - I saw my mom spoonfed in diaper and she sure wasn't embracing that part of her life.
I guess that picture is somewhat haunting. And it is a sad picture of your mother's last days. Still, I would choose that over being put to death. Call me old fashioned. I just don't see killing as the answer.
Why the difference in rates between BC and other provinces . Why are rates so high in Canada compared to California ( 10 fold rate difference ) ? Same population size . Legalised at the same time . Outbreak of suffering ? Permissive Canadian assessors normalising MAID ?
MAID is different indeed. As you are a philosopher, you are skilled in debate. How would you argue against your position on MAID from.a purely logical and ethical perspective?
You are correct that those of us who find the high number of MAID deaths disturbing have an a priori belief in the sanctity of human life and that MAID is not a fundamental good. But your a priori belief that MAID is a fundamental good also colours your views. You seem to draw logical parallels between the number of heart attacks, which we assume to agree is a fundamental bad, with the number of MAID procedures, which we do not agree on as to it being a good or a bad. Your logic is flawed. Your arguments are not free and open but rather all used to buttress your belief. So how can you draw a proper ethical conclusion?
There are objections to assisted dying and I want to hear them. My point in this article is that pointing to the number of assisted deaths isn't an argument against MAID any more than it's an argument for it. Since nearly everyone agrees that heart attacks are bad, we don't need an argument to see this. MAID is different.